Measuring minds
Subtitle: Henry Herbert Goddard and the origins of American intelligence testing
By: Leila Zenderland.
Series: Cambridge studies in the history of psychology
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
Subjects: Goddard, Henry Herbert, 1866-1957.; Intelligence tests -- United States -- History.; Psychologists -- United States -- Biography.
Description: This book offers the first complete study of the origins of American intelligence testing. It follows the life and work of Henry Herbert Goddard, America's first intelligence tester and author of the most popular American eugenics tract, The Kallikak Family ... The book also explores the broader legacies of the testing movement by showing how Goddard's ideas helped to reshape the very meaning of mental retardation, special education, clinical psychology, and the "normal" mind in ways that would be felt for the rest of the century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-441) and index.